Aban Marker Kabraji is the Regional Director of The World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Asia from 1999 onwards. Created in 1948 in Fontainebleau (France), The World Conservation Union is the world’s leading environmental organization. Its role is to convene, mobilize, and empower organizations and people to better integrate conservation into economic and social development. IUCN is an observer at the

Arnaz Marker is the daughter of Cyrus Minwalla and Mehra Minwalla, and comes from a leading business family of Karachi, Pakistan. Educated in Mama Parsi Girls School, Karachi, Arnaz later went on to study at Charters’ Towers in England and Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Switzerland. Her business career began in 1959 and continued for over thirty years. Arnaz was the

Bachi Karkaria is among India’s most-read columnists and m-respected journalists. The first is courtesy Erratica, a usually satirical, sometimes touchingly warm take on a notable event of the week. It has a sign-off character called Alec Smart who makes a cheeky one-liner comment, and who has acquired a persona of his own. The column’s popularity is helped by the fact